“When You Start Something, You Never Give Up”: Ten Quotes From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Convention Speech
I Have Compiled Ten Must-Read Quotes From The Speech Poilievre Gave Before Winning His Leadership Review With 87.4 Percent Of The Vote
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre addressed a crowd of thousands at the Conservative convention on Friday evening, ahead of a leadership review that he won with 87.4 percent of the vote.
The speech, which lasted about 50 minutes, touched on a variety of issues, including the cost of living, immigration, crime, oil and gas, as well as trade with the United States. Poilievre also addressed internal party matters, pledging free and open nomination processes.
A central theme of the speech was perseverance. Poilievre entered and exited the stage to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” and said at the end of the speech, “When you start something, you never give up.”
I have compiled 10 must-read, noteworthy quotes from the speech, which you can find below.
1. When I Become Prime Minister, Canadians Won’t Need To Ask My Permission To Succeed.
“The people need the government off their backs, out of their way and by their sides. When I become prime minister, these great Canadians will not need to ask my permission to succeed.
Business will get ahead by having the best product, not the best lobbyist. By pleasing customers, not pleasing politicians.”
2. Have You Seen The Youth Delegation At This Convention?
“Have you seen the youth delegation at this convention? It is amazing. You know, in the past when I was growing up we would go to a Conservative convention and you’d look out at the crowd, and it would be the Great White North: the white hair everywhere.
We love the people with white hair, the wisdom that they share with all of us, but we also need a party that’s infused with young people. And on that front, we are the youngest party and the oldest party.
In fact, Elections Canada holds a mock vote in the high schools on Election Day and this year, Conservatives won. We came in first. So congratulations parents, the kids are alright.”
3. Ignore The Voices Who Keep Telling Us To Abandon Our Conservative Principles.
“One of the most important lessons I have gained from listening to you throughout this convention is that you told us to ignore the voices who keep telling us to abandon our Conservative principles.
We will remain true to our principles.”
4. Eventually Everyone Admits That We Were Right All Along.
“It’s funny to watch the Liberal rhetoric. First they said, ‘Conservatives have no policies. It’s just slogans.’ Then they said, ‘Conservative policies are very scary.’ And then they said, ‘We agree with all the Conservative policies.’
The best part of being Conservatives is that eventually everyone admits that we were right all along.”
5. The Liberals Want To Protect Turkeys From Hunters.
“We won the debate in the last election on every single one of the big issues. On carbon taxes, inflation, housing, resources, crime, drugs, and soon we will be proven right once again on the wasteful and insane Liberal gun grab…
…The Liberals want to protect turkeys from hunters. We want to protect Canadians from criminals…
…We will also protect the freedoms of law-abiding people with a new castle law that allows you to take whatever action necessary to protect your family against home invaders.”
6. Conservatives Always Put Our Country Ahead Of Our Party.
“Unfair and unresolved U.S. tariffs and diplomatic distractions and disruptions from down south and from other places show that we cannot rely on others to secure our borders or buy our goods.
Conservatives renew our good faith offer to help the prime minister and his government get U.S. tariffs removed and open new markets abroad. We will work with the government in any way we can because Conservatives always put our country ahead of our party.
In this dangerous and uncertain world, Canadians must stand united so we can stand on our own two feet. United and strong Canadians will bow before no nation anywhere on earth.”
7. A More Accurate And Pragmatic Approach To Diversifying Our Trade.
“And for context, the Liberals now say that they want this strategic partnership with China for a ‘new world order.’ One pipeline to the Pacific would increase our exports more than all the products that we currently sell to China in a year. So I think that is a more accurate and pragmatic approach to diversifying our trade.”
8. We Will Deport Criminals
“We will deport criminals, end fraud, end abuse and handouts to phony refugees. We will no longer allow foreign conflicts to spill onto our streets.”
9. We Must Unite To End Antisemitism And Stand With Our Jewish Friends
“We must unite to end antisemitism and the attacks on our places of worship. And stand with our Jewish friends and neighbours who are under attack like never before. We want Jews to feel comfortable and safe. They should be able to wear the Star of David, put up the mezuzah, and wear a kippah everywhere and be proudly Jewish all around.
That’s the story of Canada, isn’t it? It’s incredible. Protestants and Catholics tear each other’s eyeballs out for hundreds of years on the other side of the pond, and they came here and got along. Yes, we squabble. Yes, we get on each other’s nerves, but we don’t fight each other because of religious or sectoral differences.
We get along with our next-door neighbors regardless of where their grandparents live. When newcomers arrive in this country, just as it has always been, we will ensure that they leave differences at the doors.”
10. When You Start Something, You Never Give Up.
“Why keep going? Because we want our kids to have the same promise that we had.
Because we want them to know that when you care about something you work for it when you believe in something you fight for it.
And most of all, when you start something, you never give up.
Because the unsung heroes who built and protect this country, who have it infinitely harder than I do, they never give up, so I have no right to give up.
Because all of you who pound signs on frozen ground, knock doors on dark nights and sacrifice warm family dinners for cold campaign pizza, you never give up, so I’ll never give up.
Because the young couple scrimping to start a family, and the single mother fighting each day to feed her kids, they never give up so that we never give up.
Because the Canadian Pacific Railway workers who pounded spikes into frozen ground and forged steel ribbon that united east and west, they never gave up, so we never gave up.
Because the Canadian teenagers living in frozen, rat-infested trenches, who had it infinitely harder than we do, they fought on, they never gave up and they won wars so that we will never give up on our country in these times.”
A full transcript of Pierre Poilievre’s speech can be found HERE.
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